Health Consequences
Consequences of Rapid Urbanization
Rapid urbanization worldwide raises new concurrent social, economic, public health, environmental, and health systems challenges, including:
- Rising prevalence of NCDs (non-communicable diseases) and emerging infectious diseases.
- Need for improved access to affordable, quality health services.
- Increased greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, pollution, and poor health.
- Unsafe housing, transportation, and physical environments.
- Need for enhanced access to healthy foods, clean water, and sanitation.
- Vast inequities in opportunities that are compounded by poverty, race, ethnicity, gender, age, migration status, and place of inhabitation.
ISUH: Bringing health into all aspects of the Urban Dialog
ISUH is the only global professional organization in the world that focuses exclusively on the broad determinants of urban health. Your membership can help us develop and sustain ISUH as an independent voice of our global, transdisciplinary members and strategic partners for health equity in urban settings.